Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Gnetopsida > Subclass Gnetidae > Order Ephedrales > Family Ephedraceae > Genus Ephedra

Ephedra distachya L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ephedra*	Tourn. ex L.	accepted genus name
*Chaetocladus*	J. Nelson	heterotypic synonym

Species group names

*Chaetocladus distachys*	(L.) J. Nelson	homotypic synonym
*Ephedra distachya subvar. linnaei*	Stapf	homotypic synonym; nom. inval.

Children

Ephedra distachya L. subsp. distachya
Ephedra distachya subsp. helvetica (C. A. Mey.) Asch. & Graebn.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bulgarian: Обикновена ефедра sources: Bulgarian PESI focal point

Catalan: arbre de la sorra; èfedra sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Galician: gesta brava; gesta marina; gesta negral; retama do mar sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Georgian: ჯორის ძუა sources: Georgia PESI focal point

Majorcan: trompera sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Portuguese: cornicabra dos algarvios sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: agraz marino; cañadillo; ceñudo; granos de helecho; trompera; uvas de mar; yerba de las coyunturas sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).